Water
Water is consumed by crew members through drinking, cleaning activities, EVA thermal control, and emergency uses. It must be stored, used, and reclaimed (from waste water) efficiently since no in-situ sources currently exist for the environments reached in the course of human space exploration.
Read more about this topic: Life Support System
Famous quotes containing the word water:
“I’d take off all my clothes
& cross the damp cold lawn & down the bluff
into the terrible water & walk forever
under it out toward the island.”
—John Berryman (1914–1972)
“A little water clears us of this deed.
How easy is it then!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“A spring,
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)